What does it take to be a winning youth coach? Listen in as Warren Nye shares stories and discusses his journey to becoming a successful youth sports coach.

Warren has been coaching youth sports for over 30 years, mostly hockey teams from the youth level through junior national teams in which he has won the national championship in Canada. Coach Nye is a student of the mental aspect of the game, and over the last few years he has launched ‘Mind over Sport’- which is a passion of Coach Nye’s to work with people and companies as their peak performance life coach. Warren lives in Ontario, Canada, with his wife and 2 teenage children.

Visualization – if they are thinking about mistakes – have them picture a time or game when they were doing really well – and have them keep replaying these times/games in their mind.

The process to excellence – If a kid is beating himself up over mistakes – it’s usually a symptom of bigger problems – and it can’t be solved overnight. But pour into the kid and be a positive role model in their life by truly caring.

HUGE IDEA #1

Mental fitness – It starts with repeating positive self-talk. But the core is action. ‘I can do it’ is great – but you have to define the actions and repeat them.

Culture – Creating a Winning Attitude

Discipline – Establish the culture up front with the players and parents.

HUGE IDEA #2

Lay out a game plan for the 1st half of the season and the 2nd half of the season to set expectations and create the vision of where this team is going.